At work I used VNC to connect from my desktop PC to another win2k box in a lab a floor and a building away. From that box I dialed out using PCanywhere to a win2k box in a transformer station near Sudbury.

Today it was a Terminal Services client through the VPN to a win2k server box. From there I used Putty as an SSH client to connect to a FreeBSD box. Then I ran screen on that.